Drought in southern China

The drought plaguing Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan provinces, the Guangxi region
and the mega-city of Chongqing has been called the worst in a century. It
has devastated crops, fuelled price rises and highlighted China's chronic
water problems. Since last September, rainfall has been less than half the
normal levels, turning much of normally temperate Yunnan into a bone-dry
environmental disaster zone of evaporating reservoirs and shrivelled rivers